Remarks on the launch

After a year and a half, I returned to Qidian to start a book. It felt like I was restarting myself again.

In the past year and a half, I often thought that I might as well retire, travel, raise cats, play games, and spend my life happily.

But I always feel that there are stories that have not been told, including Chen Ji's story.

From the moment I started to imagine this story, it was out of my comfort zone because I really wanted to write something different from the past. As for whether I can write it well, that is another matter.

In my past creations, I often ignored the logical plot. Some plots were too deliberate and seemed a bit awkward.

To have fun for the sake of having fun, to be passionate for the sake of being passionate, to be funny for the sake of being funny, and so on and so forth.

This is a question of how the creator himself judges the scale. Obviously, I did very poorly in the past, and I want to try to improve on this one.

People always have to make progress, and they can't stop even if they are very tired.

In my past works, I was too eager to advance the plot and neglected the description of details, resulting in a lack of visual sense.

Of course, as everyone has seen in this book, I am also trying hard to improve. I first spent several months collecting a lot of information and building such a solid fantasy Los Angeles in my mind.

When writing, I will try my best to immerse myself in the environment and think about what actions and words a character would take and say in that environment.

I am still learning this part, and I hope I can learn faster.

In my past works, the characters I described were somewhat opportunistic, and I would spend a lot of time describing important characters, such as Shadow and He Jinqiu.

But if the characters are not so important in my creative goals, I will be lazy and

He labels the characters so much that there is insufficient detail in the description of the characters.

I don't think about each character's growth experience in the current era, nor their true demands.

But this is not right.

In this book, I tried to make some changes. I hope that every character in this book is vivid and bright, even Brother Pao and Erdao, the uncle and aunt who only appeared once in the early stage.

The amount of creation this time is very large. Take She Dengke and Liu Quxing as examples. Although they are just small characters, I also wrote biographies for them, telling us what kind of families they were born into and what kind of life experiences they have. Even if they are small characters, they have their joys and sorrows.

There are also cloud sheep, bright rabbits, golden pigs, sick tigers, Pegasus... many, hundreds of them.

I hope they live a "complex" life in this world, rather than serving my creative purpose or advancing a certain plot.

This was a lot of work, but I enjoyed writing this book and really found this way of writing enjoyable.

In my past creations, I didn’t have a complete and clear outline, only a detailed outline.

But in this way, as I was writing, I didn’t even know what kind of story I wanted to create or what tone I wanted to set.

This is the biggest problem faced by Night's Naming Technique and Spare My Life, so I returned to the first-sequence creative mode, first coming up with the ending I wanted most, and then having the outline and the story.

But there is also a problem with writing like this. As a bystander of this story, the creator knows too much and can't help but spoil some plot points that should appear later...

Or maybe I'm too eager for that ending and hope it arrives one day sooner.

I am also slowly adapting and hope I can do better in this regard.

In the past, due to the unique serialization method of online novels, readers have high expectations for the update rate. But I want to discuss this issue with you first.

As you all know, I was number one for a long time in the nomenclature of the night.

There is a kind of magic in the ranking. When you update 8,000 words, you are on the ranking. When you update 4,000 words, you are on the ranking. When you drop to the ranking, you will try your best to get back.

During that time, I updated 12,000 words a day, and I felt like I was sublimated...

But in reality, an author has limited energy. Once the update volume increases, he or she will naturally give up control over the details because you don’t have time to examine the entire story.

Therefore, since I started writing this book, I have never asked for a monthly ticket, asked for collections, or asked for recommendations. I don’t pay attention to any rankings. I hope that I can calm down and write a story that is worthy of myself.

I won't deliberately try to be bad. I will just post as much as I write every day to ensure that the quality of my writing is acceptable to me.

Of course, if you can't write well, it's just because your level is limited. I envy those talented writers. Their stories are full of ups and downs and their writing is gorgeous, which I can never learn no matter how hard I try.

I can only learn to be myself first.

The performance of this book is currently similar to that of "The Naming of the Night" before it was put on the shelves, and even a little higher. This is something I didn't expect. After all, the protagonist's life has always been very bumpy, and the updates are also very slow... I would like to thank all the folks who read the book. I hope that this time I can write an ending that is worthy of myself.

Thank you everyone.

Thanks again.

See you tonight in the early morning, there will be another chapter in the early morning.